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• York County Civil War Border Claims Database now on-line at YCHT

  
  Cannonball — Authority: 421
  Joseph Menges lived on this prosperous York County, PA farm during the Civil War. The Franklin Township farmer filed a damage claim for $225 citing the loss of two horses to "Stuarts Cavalry" during the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign). He lost a 14-yr-old gray horse and a 4-yr-old bay mare taken despite being "concealed in ...
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• Colonel William B. Thomas commanded York Countys defenses during the Gettysburg Campaign: Part 1

  
  Cannonball — Authority: 421
  One of the forgotten men of the rich Civil War history of York County, Pennsylvania, is Colonel William B. Thomas , the commander of the 20th Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia. Thomas was perhaps the most politically powerful man in uniform here in south-central Pennsylvania during the early part of the Gettysburg ...
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• Away We Go

  
  Movie Trailer Talk - All The Latest Movie Trailers — Authority: 135
  Away We Go is the 5th film from Director Sam Mendes. Known for American Beauty , Road to Perdition and last years Revolutionary Road which are very dark in tone and content, this is a step away from the norm from him and frankly is a breath of fresh air. Away We Go is the story of Burt, played by John ...
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• J.E.B. Stuart disrupts a York County funeral

  
  Cannonball — Authority: 421
  Historic Zeiglers Church Cemetery in southern York County, Pennsylvania, contains the graves of many of the pioneers and early settlers of the Codorus Valley region. Several Civil War veterans are buried here, as well as civilian farmers whose lives were disrupted by the various Confederate troop movements during the ...
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• Latest design diary from Simmons Games

  
  Pawnderings — Authority: 129
  Worth a read , as always.
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• In Gettysburg, has monument money gone missing?

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 146
  The president of the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association is accusing staff at Gettysburg National Military Park of misappropriating funds given to the park for the repair of more than 140 Pennsylvania monuments.Kathi Schue said $77,580 appears to have gone “missing” from money secured by a state ...
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• Gettysburg details early plans for 150th battle anniversary

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 146
  It might be almost four years away, but Gettysburg needs all the time it can get to prepare for its 150th Anniversary National Civil War Re-enactment.“Normally, every five years is a national event,” said Randy Phiel, Gettysburg Anniversary Committee operations manager. “This will be an international event. We ...
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• Taking a step back in time in Gettysburg

  
  Life in the Past Lane — Authority: 112
  I intended to write this post much earlier today, but my dog found something really smelly to roll in this morning so I had to throw her in the tub for a bath - and then clean the entire bathroom. (Still cant get that smell out of my nose). Anyway, I had a great time at the book signing on Saturday at the Gettysburg ...
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• Hey! Dreyfuss! Leave Them Kids Alone!

  
  Civil War Memory — Authority: 470
  I know, I know, I know…you don’t want to hear any more about Richard Dreyfuss.  [see here and here]  Well, this will probably be it.There seems to be a generational divide regarding Dreyfuss’s speeches.  While Dreyfuss himself has admitted that he has had difficulty reaching out to high school kids an older ...
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• Gettysburg 2009 Remembrance Day Parade - Part 2

  
  Cannonball — Authority: 421
  Background Post: Gettysburg 2009 Remembrance Day Parade - Part 1 Here is the second installment of some of the photographs I took at the November 21 reenactors parade in downtown Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of the 2009 Remembrance Day celebration. ...
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• How did the Gettysburg address lead to the Confederacy loss?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 170
  I need to know how this event led to the confederate loss POLITICALY and ECONOMICLY. *** I only used caps so that it would grab your attention.
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• More Fall-In 2009 photos – my 15mm Monocacy game

  
  CHARGE! Civil War wargaming — Authority: 408
  And, here’s a photo taken at the 2009 Gettysburg Remembrance Day showing what might have been happening in one of the miniature tents shown above… For more photos of Remembrance Day 2009 in Gettysburg, please see Part 1 of my Cannonball blog , sponsored and hosted by the York Daily Record newspaper. ...
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• Gettysburg 2009 Remembrance Day Parade - Part 1

  
  Cannonball — Authority: 421
  My son Tom, grandson Tristan, and I watched the annual Remembrance Day Parade in downtown Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, today. As usual, we watched from the vicinity of Gettysburg Miniature Soldiers, this time on a park bench at the neighboring reenactors supply store. Attendance was fairly good, with decent weather, ...
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• Knowledge in the Gettysburg Curriculum

  
  Creative Destruction — Authority: 470
  Look at page 28 of the Gettysburg College Course Catalogue 2009-10 . There under the heading "Academic Purposes of Gettysburg College" is an eloquent statement that must have been approved by the faculty many years ago (before I arrived at least) concerning the goals of a Gettysburg College education. We read: In ...
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• Seven score and six years ago…

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 129
  Continuing the Gettysburg address theme from yesterday, here is a post from the National Postal Museum Library ... November 19th marks the 146th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. In 1948, the U.S. Post Office issued a 3-cent commemorative stamp on the occasion of the 85th anniversary. The ...
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• Wrightsville "Farthest East" Monument Dedicated on July 4, 1900

  
  Cannonball — Authority: 421
  Photos courtesy of Bobby Housch and the popular Gettysburg Daily blog. Taken in September 2009 with Scott Mingus while videotaping a tour of Wrightsvilles Civil War heritage . This impressive old Civil War memorial has stood for more than a century at the intersection of Hellam Street (once the famed Lincoln ...
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• Gettysburg Address Example of How Less is More and Lasts Longer

  
  Symon Sez — Authority: 130
  Not Many Photos Exist From Gettysburg Close up of above photo with only known image of Lincoln at Gettysburg On This Date in History: I have a few words concerning the events of November 19. 1863 but anything that I could say would pale in comparison to the speech reprinted below. It is the the Gettysburg ...
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• 19 Nov 1863: The Gettysburg Address

  
  What Does The Prayer Really Say? — Authority: 657
  Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.   It wasn’t much attended at the moment, but over time it has been recognized one of the greatest public speeches ever delivered. Four and a half months after the Battle of Gettysburg, on the afternoon of Thursday 19 November 1863, President Abraham Lincoln ...
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• Remembering Gettysburg

  
  President Lincoln's Cottage — Authority: 115
  At 2 o’clock in the afternoon, 146 years ago today, Lincoln delivered his address at Gettysburg. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil ...
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• Seven Score and Six Years Ago

  
  FRC Blog — Authority: 576
  Today is the 146 th anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. I was reminded of this date yesterday when I took some visitors from Australia and New Zealand to visit the Lincoln Cottage in Northwest Washington. President Lincoln spent almost a quarter of his four-year term at this rural getaway. He and his ...
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